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Friday, May 06, 2011

Prod. 2063 - Cinderella (VII) - Seq. 01.6 - Serving Breakfast

The last sequence in the first segment directed by Jaxon, laid out by Mac Stewart. Assistant director Mike Holoboff, secretary "Toby" Tobelman. This final draft dated 10/27/49.

Cindy again by Eric Larson, Cat and mice by Kimball. Then halfway, when Frank Thomas animates the Stepmother, Les Clark takes over some of Cindy's scenes and John Lounsbery animates Lucifer - smug at first, then a big take as he hears he is to be bathed. Again a few shadows by George Rowley.

The animators have been assigned in an interesting way - in blocks of scenes. So we might have several scenes of Cinderella by Eric Larson, then several by Marc Davis. Or several scenes of the mice and Lucifer by Ward Kimball, then several by Phil Duncan. I wonder if this is the way the rest of the film is cast, or if this is only a feature of Jaxon's sequences.

Funny to see that the "realistic" Cindy" and the "cartoonish" stepsisters are animated by the same individual here.

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Interested in animation since 1975, worked in Holland with Danish animator Børge Ring for four years (incl. on the Oscar-winning 'Anna & Bella'), then moved to Denmark in 1984.

Co-founder and co-owner since 1988 of A. Film, Europe's foremost animation studio, in business for ca. 30 years. We are the studio behind 'The Flight before Christmas', 'Help! I'm a Fish', 'Terkel in Trouble', 'Asterix and the Vikings', 'The Ugly Duckling and Me' and many more...

Currently the President and CEO of A. Film L.A., Inc. in Los Angeles,and director of "Miffy the Movie."

Though we are very involved in new techniques, I share a deep passion for Great Classical Animation with everyone at the studio;Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston's "Illusion of Life" is our bible.